By the way, I need to remind you that you must minimize computer use as soon as you find you lost your pictures. That's because when you empty the recycle bin, the file system marks the space previously occupied by them as free space. This means that those pictures data will be overwritten at any time. Therefore, the sooner you attempt to recover your data, the better the chance of retrieving it intact.

Here we show you how to recover pictures by using these two picture recovery software step-by-step.

Part I: Steps on How to Recover Pictures?

Step 1: Select the Partition & File Type

Select the partition where you lost your pictures, and then select "Photo"only. (This program selects all file types by default. To save time, you can select "Photo" only here.) And then click "Start Scan".

Step 2: Preview and Select Pictures

All the pictures will be listed after scanning. Select the files you need to recover by ticking the boxes before file names. Then click "Recover".

Step 3: Save the Recovered Pictures

Navigate the path on your computer to save your recovered pictures. You are suggested to save them on a different volume from the one your lost pictures were. Then you have recovered pictures successfully.

Part II: How to Recover Pictures on Mac OS X?

Using Mac Picture Recovery, your can recover pictures on Mac as follows:

1. Select the partition on which your lost pictures were.

2. Select "Photos".

3. Select the pictures you need to recover after preview.

4. Save the recovered pictures.

Troubles always seem to happen when we are least prepared for them. With the development of digital photography, image files accumulate. You often highlight undesirable or duplicate pictures and click "Delete". Or sometimes you command "Shift+Delete"to delete the pictures directly. Sometimes the need for a particular picture doesn't present itself after we find we have already lost them. No matter how your picture lost, You can get all lost pictures back now!